Testing therapeutic life review offered by home care workers to decrease depression among home-dwelling older women

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1037-1049

  Mastel Smith, Beth ^a   Binder, Brenda ^a   Malecha, Ann ^a   Hersch, Gayle ^a   Symes, Lene ^a   McFarlane, Judith ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MEMORY; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEXAS; WOMEN;

EID: 33750341055     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840600943689     Document Type: Review

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